Icing has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Social conflicts are the icing on the cake for demagogues. | |
| 2. | Tom bought two chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing and gave one of them to Mary. | |
| 3. | That was just icing on the cake. | |
| 4. | Tom likes patticakes with pink icing and hundreds and thousands on top. | |
| 5. | Only the icing is missing from the cake. | |
| 6. | Mary put some icing on the cake. | |
| 7. | Do you like chocolate icing? | |
| 8. | On the table, reposed a nut cake which she had baked that morning . . . a particularly toothsome concoction iced with pink icing and adorned with walnuts. | |
| 9. | Mary put the icing on the cake. | |
| 10. | The annual gingerbread White House — more than 400 pounds (181 kilograms) of dough, gum paste, chocolate and royal icing — for the first time includes the Rose Garden, recently renovated by the first lady, as well as the First Ladies' Garden. |